Posts Tagged ‘government’

Via Media Shift
by Mark Drapeau, January 5, 2009
t’s easy to see governments as nameless, faceless monoliths, something impersonal or, even worse, untrustworthy. Much of that is because government culture remains steeped in traditional ideas about public relations and outreach work, notions that have become archaic in an Internet-enabled, hyper-connected world. Just as private companies [...]

Via the New York Times
By Michael Falcone
You’ve got questions?
The Obama transition team might have an answer.
A new feature on President-elect Barack Obama’s transition Web site, Change.gov, which allows users to submit questions and then vote on the ones they most want answered, went live on Wednesday.
The tool, “Open for Questions,” already appears to [...]

Via PR 2.0
What follows is the unedited version of my latest post for TechCrunch, “Is Obama Ready To Be a Two-Way President.”

Source: Barack Obama’s flickr stream
Where there’s victory, there’s also opportunity…
America voted while the entire world watched and listened. Whether you supported Obama or McCain, we equally shared the hope for positive change and a [...]

Here are a few links to articles put up by Canadian public servant bloggers who are interested in public servant and departmental blogging:
General guide for public bloggers, based largely on US laws since little is written here in Canada:
EFF: Legal Guide for Bloggers
http://w2.eff.org/bloggers/lg/
On what we can reproduce and who owns what is written:
Intellectual Property
http://w2.eff.org/bloggers/lg/faq-ip.php
US guide [...]

Via Mashable

November 12, 2008 - 8:19 am PDT - by Mark Drapeau

Dr. Mark Drapeau is an Associate Research Fellow directing the Social Software for Security (S3) project at the Center for Technology and National Security Policy of the National Defense University in Washington, DC.
Thoughts of a future President Obama have [...]

Via ARS Technica
By Julian Sanchez | Published: November 06, 2008 - 05:26PM CT
Only time will tell whether President-Elect Barack Obama will be able to deliver on his promise to bring change to government, but the Illinois senator has already brought it to the dot-gov domain. Obama’s transition Web site, Change.gov, went live today, soliciting suggestions [...]

Via Mashable

November 3, 2008 - 8:26 am PDT - by Mark Drapeau 5 Comments

Dr. Mark Drapeau is an Associate Research Fellow directing the Social Software for Security (S3) project at the Center for Technology and National Security Policy of the National Defense University in Washington, DC.
The day after the presidential [...]

Via Gartner
nalysts Explore Social Networking Impact on Government at Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2008, 3-7 November in Cannes, France

Egham, UK, October 23, 2008 —
By 2011, [...]

Federal employees will be able to post, modify content on internal program
Vito Pilieci, The Ottawa Citizen
After years of banning access to blogs, YouTube and Facebook, it seems the federal government has figured out that maybe that Internet thing isn’t so bad after all. In fact, it might even be useful.
At the annual Government in Technology [...]

Via ARS Technica
By David Chartier | Published: October 26, 2008 - 03:30PM CT

The positive merits of social networking have been leveraged in a multitude of ways by consumers, businesses, and other organizations for some time. Now, in light of tightening budgets, a VP analyst at Gartner says it’s time for government departments to move past [...]